Non-Believers Beware. ADAM may cause your spirit to embrace what your own reasoning rejects. Ted Dekker has a way of enlarging the traditional scope of the common believer. He takes unpopular subjects like demon possession and illustrates each scene with a detailed precision that engages the readers’ senses causing a bone-chilling encounter.
One of the underlying stories of ADAM is the danger of a doctrine or philosophy that rejects supernaturalism and stresses one’s own dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason. Reasoning can be detrimental, allowing the mind, body and soul to be subjective regarding holiness. Though we have all been given the freedom of choice, however, not choosing is still choosing. Dekker reveals hard truths in this novel but the reader will carry the ending results far beyond the moment the last page is read.
ADAM leaves a lingering impression on the psyche that compels the reader to ponder the sincerity of one’s own intentions regarding that of a higher power. When reasoning out weigh faith the results are inevitable. It plays out to be a valuable lesson to one of the characters in this novel, a lesson to die for, or so it goes.
Alex, the main character in ADAM, is bound to his past. A prisoner of his childhood. The pain from yesteryears proves to be more than what Alex can handle. As a result, he conjures up the spirit Eve, a familiar spirit of his past, causing a murderous cycle that Alex won’t soon forget, and neither will the reader.
Reviewed by:
Takiela Bynum